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      • Chapter 1: The Ministers and Their Times
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      • Prologue: The South Pacific, 1943 >
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      • Volume One >
        • The Native Americans
        • The English Background
        • The British American
        • Reform in Colonial America
        • Divided Loyalties
        • The American Revolution
        • Testing the Constitution
        • Republican Nationalism
        • The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy
        • Abolitionists and Anti-abolitionists
        • Texas Revolution
        • Reform in the Early Republic
        • Manifest Destiny
        • A Slave's Story
        • The Civil War >
          • Two Soldiers
      • Volume Two >
        • The “Taming” of the West
        • Beyond Emancipation
        • The New Industrial Era
        • The Birth of Environmentalism
        • New Immigrants
        • Expanding American Democracy
        • World War I
        • Modernity versus Tradition
        • The New Deal
        • Total War
        • The Cold War
        • The Civil Rights Movement
        • Turmoil on the Campuses
        • The New Computer Age
        • America, the Cold War, and Beyond
      • Additional Essays >
        • Norsemen in the New World
    • The Fair and the Falls >
      • Part I: Possessing the Falls >
        • Chapter One: James Glover: Purchasing the Falls
        • Chapter Two: Waiting for the Indians
        • Chapter Three: Harnessing the Falls
        • Chapter Four: "The World's Fair of the Northwest"
        • Chapter Five: The City Beside the Falls
      • Part II: Rediscovering the Falls >
        • Chapter Six: The Twilight of Old Spokane
        • Chapter Seven: Urban Blight and Urban Renewal
        • Chapter Eight: King Cole and The Heart of a City
        • Chapter Nine: Visualizing a World's Fair
      • Part III Redesigning the Falls >
        • Chapter Ten: From Spokane to Paris >
          • Tom Foley's Turn
        • Chapter Eleven: Wooing the Foreign Exhibitors
        • Chapter Twelve: Wooing the Domestic Exhibitors
        • Chapter Thirteen: The Environmental Debate
        • Chapter Fourteen: Building the Fair
        • Chapter Fifteen: Marketing, Money, and Management
      • Part IV: The Fair by the Falls >
        • Chapter Sixteen: Opening Day
        • Chapter Seventeen: A Mingling of Peoples
        • Chapter Eighteen: Days at the Fair
        • Chapter Nineteen: The Press of New Ideas
        • Chapter Twenty: The Final Tally
      • Part V: An American Environment >
        • Chapter Twenty-One: Spokane Falls, An American Environment
      • The Fair and the Falls Map
Bibliography

BROWN, KATHLEEN M. Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (1996). Explores the roles of gender and race in the genesis of institutions in colonial Virginia.
LOCKRIDGE, KENNETH. The Diary and Life of William Byrd II of Virginia, 1677–1744 (1987). Overview of Byrd’s life.
———. On the Sources of Patriarchal Power (1992). Uses the commonplace books of Thomas Jefferson and William Byrd to explore the relationship of power and gender in early Virginia.
MARAMBAUD, MARION. William Byrd of Westover, 1674–1744 (1971). Topical account of Byrd and his world.
PARENT, ANTHONY S., JR. Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1600–1740 (2003). Cogent analysis of enslavement and black resistance to enslavement in colonial Virginia.
TINLING, MARION, EDITOR. The Correspondence of the Three William Byrds of Westover, Virginia, 1684–1776 (1977).Fine collection of letters to and from the Byrds.
WOODFIN, MAUDE H., EDITOR. Another Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1739–1741 (1942). Covers later years in Virginia and includes letters and literary exercises.
WRIGHT, LOUIS B., AND MARION TINLING, EDITORS. The London Diary (1717–1721) and Other Writings (1958).Includes the Westover Manuscripts.
———. The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709–1712 (1941). Covers early years in Virginia and marriage to Lucy.

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